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Informal Workers

• rganizing and

representation In Eastern Europe and Central Asia

S.Glovackas ILO Moscow office

ILO Office in Moscow represents:

• 10 countries
• 232 mln. Inhabitants
• 20 mln. kilometers
• Team of the Technical Specialists in the

directions of the Decent work Programme

• More than 40 mln. trade union members

Background roots

Year of the ILO foundation - 1919 First entry of the USSR - 1934 Re-entry of the USSR - 1954 Foundation of the ILO Office in Moscow - 1959 The ILO Office in Moscow got the status of the Country Office - 1992 The ILO Office in Moscow got the status of the Regional Office - 1998

Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an

• bstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own

countries; ILO Constitution

DGP per capita USD

Life expectancy

Population Birth rate (per 1000) Average wage Russia 18100 70,16 142,5 11,87 620 Belarus 16100 72 9,6 10,6 450 Kazakhsta n 14100 70,2 18 19,6 660 Azerbaijan 10800 72 9,7 17 530 Georgia 6100 75 4,9 12.9 470 Armenia 6300 74 3 13 400 Uzbekistan 3800 73 29 17 220

Turkmenistan

9700 69 5,17 19,6 Kyrgyzstan 2500 70,6 5,6 23,3 160 Tajikistan 2300 67 8 25 120

странамRatifications

Totally ratified conventio ns Fundamental 8 Priority - 4 183 156 Since 2010 Azerbaijan 56 8 4 yes 2 Armenia 29 8 3 Belarus 49 8 3 183 Georgia 17 8 1 Kazakhstan 24 8 4 yes 4 Kyrgyzstan 53 8 3 Moldova 42 8 4 183 2 Russia 73 8 3 156 9 Tajikistan 50 8 3 2

Turkmenistan

9 8 3 Ukraine 69 8 4 156 2 Uzbekistan 13 7 1

S.Glovackas

Russia/Россия FNPR 21.1 mln(47)ITUC KTR 2.48 (20 ITUC Kazakhstan/Казахстан FPRK 2.2 (24) ITUC associated KSPK 50000 Belarus/Белоруссия FPB 4.2 mln. BKDP 0.01(4) ITUC Armenia/Армения HAMK 0.205(20) ITUC associated Georgia/Грузия GTUC 0.147(22) ITUC Azerbaijan/Азербайджан AHIK 1.6(26) ITUC Kyrgyzstan/Киргизия FPKg 0.728mln(21) ITUC asociated Tajikistan/Таджикистан FNPT 1.18mln (20) Turkmenistan/Туркмения NCTUT1.1mln Uzbekistan/Узбекистан FPUz 6.1(14 br)

Informally employed rate (%)

below 20% 20-30% 30-40% 40-50% above 50%

Transperency International 2015

• Georgia -48 Estonia 23 Lithuania 32 Latvia 40
• Moldova 103
• Armenia 95
• Belarus 107
• Russia 119
• Kazakhstan 123
• Azerbaijan 119
• Ukraine 130
• Kyrgyzstan 123
• Tajikistan 136
• Uzbekistan 153
• Turkmenistan 154
• Total 168 countries

ILO and the United Nations Acts related to the informal economy

ILO 8 Fundamental Conventions 87 98 105 29 100 111 138 182 4 Priority Conventions 81 129 122 144 Social conventions 156 102 183 Recommendation 202 On migration 97 143 on type of workers 177 189 Recommendation 203 Recommendation 198 On Occupational safety and health 155 184 187 The rights to organize 141 154 United Nations The Universal Declaration of Human Rights International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Their Families International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ILO 90th Session, 2002

• TUs can sensitise workers in the informal economy to

the importance of having collective representation through educational programmes;

• TUs can also make efforts to include workers in the IE in

collective agreements;

• With women accounting for a majority in the IE, TUs

should create or adapt internal structures to promote the participation and representation of women and also to present their specific needs;

• TUs can provide special services to workers in the IE,

including information on their legal rights, educational projects, etc.;

• There is also a need to develop and promote positive

strategies to combat discrimination of all forms, to which workers of the IE are particularly vulnerable.

ILO 2015 Recommendation 204

• “…those in the informal economy enjoy freedom of association and the right to

collective bargaining […] an enabling environment…”

• “In designing, implementing and evaluating policies and programmes of relevance

to the informal economy, including its formalization, Members should consult with and promote active participation of the most representative employers’ and workers’ organizations, which should include in their rank, according to national practice, representatives of membership-based representative organizations of workers and economic units in the informal economy.”

• “…workers’ organizations may seek the assistance of the International Labour

Office…”

• As perhaps illustrated in examples throughout this guide, there is no one-size-fits-all

approach to organizing informal economy workers. Workers’ organizations have employed a range of strategies, and have variously chosen to focus on particular sectors (such as transport), vulnerable groups (such as migrants), or issue areas (such as occupational safety and health or social protection). See Annex C for a basic list of suggested steps in the organizing process, which can be adapted to specific targets.

• Representatives of the informal economy should be incorporated into the organization’s

structures and programmes.

• If possible, workers’ organizations should engage in social dialogue throughout the process
• f planning and implementing the transition.
• They should not hesitate to request assistance from the ILO, and ACTRAV in particular.

Background

• ICFTU Informal Economy Task Force

2001

• CEE Trade unions Council Conference

“Informal Economy, Migrant Workers and Role of Unions”, Gdansk 2003

• ILO-ICFTU CEE Programme 2004-2005
• PERC Founding Conference Rome 2007
• FNV-ITUC/PERC Programme 2007-2010
• ITUC/PERC ACTRAV activity 2011-2015

• TREE SEGMENTS OF IE
• >Legal: domestic work; mutual services;

atypical forms;

• >Semi-legal/grey: unregistered employment
• >Criminal;
• DIFERENT DRIVING FORCES /criminal;

income-job; tradition driven/

• TU INVOLVMENT /action research method/
• EARLY MOVE/OPENTO SOCIAL PARTNERS

Three activity directions

1.

Raising awareness

2.

Organising

3.

Social Dialog

• Common indicators for trade union

actions;

• Structural reforms for all-inclusive

representation of all the groups of workers;

• Unionisation and collective representation;
• Common actions by the social partners;
• joint alliance building and cooperation with

relevant civil society organisations

Outcome 6 ACTRAV priority

• Annual IE network meetings( Bishkek,

Baku, Tbilisi, Yerevan)

• Pilot programes Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan
• Training Kit
• Organising campaign Georgia Azerbaijan
• Public awerness campaigns in Central

Asia

Recommendations

• Creative and flexible approach
• IE workers organisations network formalization
• NGOs, International Organisations and Trade

Unions working in this field and ongoing projects database

• To help IE workers create cooperatives and get

involved into cooperative movement and

• rganize credit unions to help IE workers
• rganisations refuse non-TU functions.
• To prepare targeted sectoral IE workers
• rganising methodologies and organisers

training system

Successes

• Networking and coordination
• IE workers organisations capacity building
• Synergy of theory and practice
• Publicity and campaigning
• National and sub regional ”task force”
• Cooperation with different partners
• Experience summary -”Guide”
• Poltical priority

IE workers organisations

Georgia - Commerce and transport Armenia - Service and transport Azerbaijan - Service, Commerce, Agriculture Kyrgyzstan - Commerce, Sewing, Transport, Agriculture Ukraine - Transport, Commerce, Service, IT Moldova - Commerce, Service, Transport Belarus - Self-employed TU Serbia Croatia Russia Lithuania Poland Bulgaria Kazakhstan Romania

Organising

Leaders

Subregional Conference in Baku June 2016

conclusions

• Level of information and understanding on IE phenomena in the

region is rather high.

• Now it is time for the practical actions and daily work on the IE

workers’ representation and organizing.

• The second step should be the national events on a new ACTRAV

Manual training and testing.

• Next year Trade Unions’ IE sub regional network should meet again

and discuss the results of recommendations and Action plans’ implementation, efficiency and usefulness of the ACTRAV manual, to prepare further actions.

• IE remains one of the main priorities and challenges for the Trade

Unions in the region.

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• Results
• Action plan
• Recommendations to the national and

international Tus organisations

• Recommendations to the new ACTRAV

Manual on IE

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